A music digging app for songs you never knew to look for.
The music apps we use pick the next song with an algorithm, based on what we have played before. So we keep hearing songs like the ones we already know.
When would you ever hear a genre that is completely new to you, or music from the many countries of this wide planet? Meet the songs that radio DJs, in places you may never have heard of, chose with care.
Right now, somewhere in the world, a radio station is playing a song you have never heard. Unless you happen to land there, you will never hear the songs they chose, or know what is on the air in another country tonight.
That is why World Radio was made: to connect you to that chance. Open the app, and the globe flies you to a music station on the air right now, somewhere on Earth. Roll the dice, and you land somewhere else.
When a song stops you, find out its name before it drifts away, and keep it.
"Chance needs a place to land. This is one."
When you open World Radio, the globe flies from the whole Earth down to a random live music station and starts playing it. The dice button above the mini player takes you to another random station from any tab. Nothing is recommended to you. Where you land is up to chance. You can turn off Autoplay on Launch in Settings.
In the Globe tab, every station is a dot on the globe. Tap a dot to listen, and the globe flies to it. Many stations don't list their exact location, so their dot is placed inside their country, not at their city.
Right Now gathers stations in places where it is late night at this moment, between 10 PM and 6 AM local time. Open it to see Morning, Afternoon, and Evening as well. Favorites keeps the stations you starred. Recently Played keeps the stations from the last 7 days that you listened to for at least 30 seconds or identified a song on. Countries and Genres let you narrow a country by genre, or a genre by country. In the Search tab, look up stations by name, country, or genre.
Tap the Shazam button in the player. World Radio listens to the station's own stream, not to your microphone, and shows the song's artwork, title, and artist with a link to Apple Music. Every song it finds is saved to Saved Songs for you, with the station, the place, and the time you heard it.
Saved Songs is at the bottom of the Browse tab, grouped by date. Tap a song's Apple Music badge to open it there, and add a note to remember the moment. Export sends your songs to a playlist in your Apple Music library. This needs Sync Library turned on in Apple Music, which usually means an Apple Music subscription. Songs that Apple Music can't find are skipped. If you are signed in to iCloud, Saved Songs and Favorites also sync through your own iCloud.